Synopses & Reviews
Focusing on the experiences of one particular family living in one particular house during these historic events, Ayşe Kulin mixes fact and fiction, soap opera and Tolstoy, to bring to light the effects of such political upheaval on a nominally comfortable and affluent household: the monied and intellectual class who find that their stake in Turkish life and culture is far more precarious than they could have guessed.
Synopsis
A sweeping story of the final collapse of the Ottoman Empire over the course of the First World War, Farewell is a novel of great warmth, suffused with tragedy.
Synopsis
A sweeping story of the final collapse of the Ottoman Empire over the course of the First World War, "Farewell" is a novel of one particular family living in one particular house during these historic events.
About the Author
Ayşe Kulin was born in Istanbul in 1941. A fiction writer and essayist, Kulin has been awarded the Haldun Taner Short Story Award, the Sait Faik Story Prize, and has twice been named writer of the year by the Istanbul Communication Faculty. In 2011, Farewell: A Mansion in Occupied Istanbul was longlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.Kenneth J. Dakan has translated work by Buket Uzuner.